Photography by Bryan Derballa Growing up playing tennis in the suburbs of Miami, one could logically assume I’d be an outdoorsy kind of guy. But after the better part of four decades living in the center of some of this country’s largest megalopolises (New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans), my comfort level being inside a given edifice’s walls hit cruising altitude. Yeah, inside’s where it’s at for this dyed-in-the-wool city kid. Then, nearly a decade ago, I bought a home in the Hudson Valley that was perched on a lovely corner lot, on a lovely…
